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A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it…
A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lies under, by the male-administration of their present governor, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governor's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.A memorial of the present deplorable state of New-England, with the many disadvantages it lyes under, by the male-administration of their present governour, Joseph Dudley, Esq. and his son Paul, &c. : Together with several affidavits of people of worth, relating to several of the said governour's mercenary and illegal proceedings, but particularly his private treacherous correspondence with Her Majesty's enemies the French and Indians. : To which is added, a faithful, but melancholy account of several barbarities lately committed upon Her Majesty's subjects, by the said French and Indians, in the east and west parts of New-England. / Faithfully digested from the several original letters, papers, and mss. by Philopolites.
London: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1707
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Colonel Partridge's Affidavits.
Collonel Partridge's Affidavits.
William Partridge of Portsmouth, in the Province of New-Hampshire, in New England, maketh Oath, that he doth believe that Joseph Dudley Esq present Governor of New-England, did Countenance a Trade with the French and Indian Enemies, and saith, that he the said Dudley did keep Correspondence with one Gallen Emissary, a French Friar or Jesuit, that Lives among the Indians; and the said Dudley owned to this Deponent, that he had a great Correspondence with the Governor of Port-Royal: And this Deponent saith, that Captain Vetch, and Captain Lawson often told this Deponent, that they had acquainted the said Dudley with their Voyage to the Eastward, when they Traded with the French and Indians, and that he Consented thereto; and that soon after they had so Traded, the Indians came down and Killed Lieutenant John Shapeley at the Town of Kittery; and a Man, his Wife and Children in the Township of Dover; and Killed one Man with Swan-shot out of the Township of Hampton; and Killed Nine; and Wounded one out of the Township of Exeter; and about the latter end of June last Killed Six, and Wounded Two; and carried away Two out of the Township of Almesbury; all which Persons were Killed and taken in this Deponent's Neighbourhood, as this Deponent hath heard, and verily believes, being informed so by those that were at most of their Funerals. And this Deponent further saith, that there was not to his Knowledge, any of the Indian Enemies Killed since the said Dudley was Governor, except an Old Woman and two others, that seemed by their Scalps to be Girls. And this Deponent further saith, that the said Dudley told this Deponent Six Months before the Invasion by the Indians, that when they came again they would not come in any great Body, as they used to do, but not above Thirty in a Company, and so Line the Woods from Deerfield to Casko-Bay, which is above a Hundred Miles, which Method the said Indians did after take in their said Invasion: but how the said Dudley came to know that they would so do, this Deponent knoweth not; but saith, that the said Dudley